Re: tense-hadn't

Yankee — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:50:35 GMT

Newguest wrote:
HI
HI !

IS IT REALLY A BIG MISTAKE TO PUT A COMMA AFTER "ALI?" It is a little mistake.

WHY CAN'T WE SAY "A BAD LUCK" The word 'luck' is uncountable. You cannot use 'a' with an uncountable noun. You can say something such as 'a bit of bad luck' or 'some bad luck', however.

I WROTE "TODAY" AT THE END OF THE SENTENCE CAUSE, BUT MAYBE I'M WRONG, HE'S STILL ALIVE, THAT'S WHY I WROTE "HE WOULD SUFFER"

I KNOW THERE IS SOMETHING LIKE MIXED CONDITIONALS. I WROTE "HE HADN'T BEEN A BOXER" BECAUSE HE'S NOT ONE ANY MORE, That doesn't change the fact that you have begun a Type III conditional. The unchangeable fact is that he was a boxer and therefore the condition ("wasn't/hadn't been a boxer") is impossible to fulfil -- whether or not he is still a boxer is basically irrelevant. AND "HE WOULD SUFFER" CAUSE HE'S STILL ALIVE. As I see it, the problem with "would suffer" in your sentence is that, even with the word 'today' added, it could be interpretted as a reference to only now and the future.

THANKS

By the way, typing in all CAPITAL letters is known as "shouting" and is often seen as UNFRIENDLY.

Re: It would have/had been okay, if it were you.

Ant_222 — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:55:34 GMT

If you mean the present:

Yesterday I drank too much vodka. I would feel much better (now) if it had been wine.

As to your second sentence, "would had been" is certainly wrong, while your #1 requires a context to decide whether it is correct. It might be some kind of mixed conditional, like:

I would have told you if you were a policeman!

Non-mixed:
It would have been OK (yesterday) if I hadn't drunk vodka (the day before yesterday).

EDIT: Ok, here's your context (from another thread):

«Isn't Commander-in-Chief a kind of weird noun? It would have been okay, if it were Chief Commander instead of C-in-C.»

You should say: "It would be ok if it was/were Chief Commander".

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